It really depends on your objectives. Just want to save some fiat? Go 85% BTC/15% ETH this way you can ride the BTC price rises and still enjoy xx% gains on ETH. Or you can do what the most opportunistic do and go 100% ETH and then diversify that into ERC-20 tokens built on top of the Ethereum protocol. Now obviously you should do your due diligence but hopefully this can give you some ideas.
Your probably looking for some working examples of dApps (decentralized apps). Install MetaMask for Chrome and visit one of these sites: http://etheroll.com, http://etherdelta.github.io, and http://oasisdex.com are all working examples of smart contracts at work.
People like to compare the two but they are actually quite different. Bitcoin is supposed to be a store of value, Ethereum is a new decentralized web protocol. ETH is the gas used to power smart contracts on this protocol.
Yeah, he probably did not read it, but he does bring up a good point which is that this is only an issue because there are third parties involved.
If you were sending a Bitcoin payment on your own and you by accident sent too much, there is nothing you can do about it. That money is gone for good.
At least here it is nice that there is a chance to get it back.
That is true, and there is also the point that if I copied the address incorrectly instead of the amount, it would not be recoverable. (But this is more difficult since I can copy and paste the address; I'm actually not sure why the amount can't be copied to clipboard from Checkout.js.)
Although, in this case, I was in some sense paying myself, so I would have been able to just do a reverse transaction (and eat the fees).
I'm working on terms of service, and legal agreements API for websites, mobile apps, & SaaS products called CoContract.
You can track user acceptance, profile data, and versioning of your website's most common & critical legal documents all from one dashboard.
It's required to be legally compliant when doing business online and then to track and manage this over a long period of time can be tedious and disorganized.
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There are 7 billion people in the world, so your numbers suggest that about half the people in the world neither have nor do not have access to modern banking facilities.
Additionally, those with the least access to modern banking facilities probably don't have the best access to facilities for efficiently making use of bitcoins, either.
I for one will thank you for your admittance that marketing a product or service to a prospective target audience is indeed hard, and for along time here on HN, many would say oh your just the marketing guy what do you have to offer or bring to the table if it's not marketing and programming then why do I need you on the team? I'm just glad that both sides of the table are seeing that we should all work cohesively to our strengths to reach the end goal of a particular project or startup.
Yep. I looked into Bitcoin when it first came out and I predicted that it would fail. Satoshi's paper never mentioned the emergent pyramid-scheme social dynamics...
This is like saying nana nana boo boo stick your head in doo doo. You can't run an illegal business and then vehemently flaunt it to a major news publication that gets read around the world essentially saying that your smarter than the government won't end well for anyone.
